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1 Why should we start or fear to die?
What timorous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.
2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away:
Still we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.
3 O, if my Lord would come and meet,
My soul should stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she past.
4 Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.
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First Line: | Why should we start and fear to die? |
Title: | Christ's Presence makes Death easy |
Meter: | L. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1845 |
Topic: | Consummation of Things: Death |